Looking for Alternatives to the Music App - that will sync with my iPhone.

Not al all.

Ihor280, from his post states the challenges better.

Ihor280

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Sep 3, 2023 2:13 AM in response to TheLittles

So let me be a bit more precise:

With Apple Music, I seem to be stuck with only being able to sort my music by Album, Artist, Genre, and Song. However, when a choose an artist, I cannot access that artist's body of work in columns, but I'm restricted to the Album formatting, and, if I have many albums by one artist (e.g. about 30 albums by The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, etc.), I have to scroll through everything in order to get to the one I want. It's a bloody PAIN in the A**!

And, if I want to find an artist on an album of various artists, and then play that album, it's a nightmare!

Maybe I'm not seeing some obvious solution to this, but, honestly, I find Apple's methods extremely arcane and not at all the easy, user-friendly system that is touted by many. I'm really starting to regret moving from the PC system!

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aybe it does. but much less easily than before.

What could be simpler than typing "bruce springsteen high hopes" in the old search box?

As I did just now?

Under Music - If I type "bruce springsteen high hopes" in the search bar I get nothing.

f I type "bruce springsteen" or "high hopes" I get

And there is no option too view it as a list.Smart lists are a step backwards, Since I will have to create one every single time I want to find something, and, selecting songs takes an enormous effort for something that used to be "Dead Simple".

Apple constantly does this. The mail app is a pale shadow of what it used to be.

Please read my post.

I don't want all the songs by an artist. That's not the place I want to be - especially if the song is on several albums and there are several versions.

That's why I build playlists. To select which songs I want after I have played them and rated them.

In Music, one can't even get a selectable "list" of songs - because when you search for an artist, there is no longer a list view.

So, is anyone aware of an alternative...

Errrr, no.

A list view, like once existed under iTunes is no longer available. Sure. Listing every one of the 200k songs, yes.

But. Not when one performs a search.

Sorry.

Please stop wasting both my and your time trying to assert that something that no longer exists, still does.

Can you send me a screen shot of a list view, after having searched for an artist and album please.

Smart lists don't really work since I cannot figure out search within the list.

For example, having created a list of all Dua Lipa songs, how doe I search for "Future Nostalgia" in that list

Sorting by clicking on a column used to do something. But no longer.

Can you send me a screen shot of a list view, after having searched for an artist and a specific album please?

Smart lists don't really work since I cannot figure out search within the list.

For example, having created a list of all Dua Lipa songs, how do I search for the "Future Nostalgia" album in that list. I hope it doesn't involve another ""smart list".

Sorting by clicking on a column used to do something. But no longer.